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Just got this email. They're still at it...

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Dear Absent,

Internet censorship is coming to America. It's in the form of a bill in Congress that gives corporations unprecedented power to blacklist
websites.



If passed, the "Stop Online Piracy Act," or SOPA, could rip apart the open
fabric of the Internet.

That's why Free Press and dozens of other organizations are calling today
"American Censorship Day." We're asking you to [4]join us right now and
take action against this horrible legislation.

The bill allows for the sort of heavy-handed tactics you'd expect to see
in China, not from the U.S. Congress. SOPA (HR 3261) not only lets
companies silence websites but also allows banks to freeze financial
deposits to the accounts of website owners, potentially forcing falsely
accused Internet enterprises out of business.

The bill was intended to discourage illegal copyright violations, but it
addresses this problem by giving corporations way too much authority over
the way the Internet works. It deputizes the private sector with the power
to disconnect the URLs of any websites corporations contend are behaving
improperly.

The consequences for free speech online are grave. Imagine your kid sister
creates a "fansite" featuring videos of her singing Taylor Swift songs
into a hairbrush. The bill not only gives Swift's record label the
authority to "disappear" your sister's site from the Web but could also
land her in jail, where she would face severe penalties and long prison
time.

Even pop singer Justin Bieber called SOPA "ridiculous." He said that
"people need to have the freedom ... to sing songs," and added that any
member of Congress who supports this bill "needs to be locked up -- put
away in cuffs." ^2

We're not so sure about the handcuffs. But at the very least Congress
should kill this bill:

[5]Tell your representative, Joe Pitts, to stop SOPA in its tracks.

A Senate version of SOPA, called the Protect IP Act, passed committee
approval in the spring following a massive push by film and music industry
lobbyists. These lobbyists are back, but now Silicon Valley companies and
venture capitalists have joined forces with civil liberties groups,
independent musicians and free speech advocates to stop the bill.

If the bill passes, we could see the private sector's authority expand to
a point that undermines the fundamental openness of the Internet.

We can't let corporations become the Internet police. [6]SOPA must be
stopped.

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Man our congress, supreme court and the like are so fucking corrupt that if the powers that be want this bill to pass then it will pass no matter the waste of resources or negative effects.
Well to the banana republic(plutocracy) of America.

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It won't pass. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and eBay have way to much pull with congress to have their shit stomped by a few special interest groups like the MPAA or The Writes Guild. The record companies are no match for a company as progressive as Google.
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(11-17-2011 02:17 PM)Thought Criminal Wrote:  It won't pass. Google, Yahoo, Facebook and eBay have way to much pull with congress to have their shit stomped by a few special interest groups like the MPAA or The Writes Guild. The record companies are no match for a company as progressive as Google.

Yeah plus in the long run this will hurt alot of businesses that excel through online.

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Yeah, in my experience these types of things normally don't pass. I've seen at least 15 of these proposed bills, and from what I can remember very few if any of them actually passed. Luckily. Hopefully nobody pulls some ninja shit with one of them one of these days and pushes it through at midnight or some bullshit.

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It's a disgrace it is even being considered.

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Its name is SOPA. It's got a snowball's chance in hell.

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Disregard this post
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IT'S PASSED

BOTH BILLS PASSED

IT'S ALL OVER
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(11-18-2011 05:27 AM)BaronVonStrangle Wrote:  IT'S PASSED

BOTH BILLS PASSED

IT'S ALL OVER

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/1...2520101118
forgot source

SS will be shut down no doubt

nice knowing all you people

except shippony you always sucked dick
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(11-18-2011 05:37 AM)BaronVonStrangle Wrote:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/1...2520101118
forgot source

SS will be shut down no doubt

nice knowing all you people

except shippony you always sucked dick

You know i am a class A faggot

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That was fast... I thought there was still time to stop that clusterfuck...

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Well shit.
Wait, what the fuck are you talking about? It hasn't even passed yet. It's got a LONG way to go lol. 9/10... http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3261
That article is only refering to the panel derp.

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This is bullshit. We go through with this evry year.

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This government has the most corrupt officials, why the fuck is it called a "free" country if we cannot even have free fucking internet. I am facepalming right now. Anybody who supported this bill needs to get tortured till the last days of their life.
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Quote:Last week there was a small meeting at Mozilla to discuss SOPA, the Internet Censorship Bill.

It was eerie. The DC groups were practically screaming "this bill is the worst we've ever seen, and we can't stop it" -- while everyone else had barely heard of it. The consensus? We needed to wake people up.

Well, this week the Internet woke up. *You* woke the Internet up.

Check out the numbers and screenshots from American Censorship Day.

Over 80,000 Tumblr users called ther representatives. SOPA was a trending tweet in the U.S. and between the Electronic Fronteir Foundation, Avaaz, and Demand Progress (groups that are just now working together!) we sent Congress over 1,000,000 emails.

The scary part? We still might lose. Though growing fast, our coalition still isn't strong enough.

The bill is backed by an unholy alliance of Hollywood, its unions, drug companies, and the Chamber of Commerce. They are pouring money into it, and they've been working on this for years. Yesterday, big players like Tumblr, Mozilla, Reddit, BoingBoing and even 4chan came out strong on our side. Now it's your turn. We've got to dig in and go viral.

Can you tell 20 friends about the Internet Censorship Bill?

Click here to spread the word on Facebook Click here for Twitter



Or just forward this email.

And remember, the thing that made yesterday so powerful were the thousands of people who ran "Stop Censorship" messages on their sites.

Can you add a "Stop Censorship" message to your blog, Tumblr, Facebook, or YouTube pages? Click here for the code.

If you ran "Stop Censorship" or the "Contact Congress" splash on your page, we humbly ask you to keep running it until this bill is dead, and to find more people who can. We understand if you can't, but the bill is just as bad as it was yesterday -- so we've got to ask.
Click here to get the code to add to your page. It's easy.

Click here to get the code to add to your page. It's easy.

This week was amazing -- thanks for everything you've done. There will be more, we promise.

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Already added notices to SS and HWcompare and posted about it on bookface. This shit really needs to be killed ASAP.

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Enjoy being analy violated by those with wealth and finance westernfags

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LOL AMERIKA!

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(11-26-2011 08:21 PM)Efs Wrote:  LOL AMERIKA!

This coming from an Ausfailian, whos country has been trying to push through a nigh-identical bill for years.

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Actually, it lasted two months. And they weren't identical at all.

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(11-26-2011 08:21 PM)Efs Wrote:  LOL AMERIKA!

You're from Australia? Where if 30 year old women wear a school-girl outfit in a porn it's banned or blocked or something?


NAH both our countries suck a big one.

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(11-26-2011 08:21 PM)Efs Wrote:  LOL AMERIKA!

Your military isn't even allowed to have guns. And god forbid a video game with so much a spec of drugs tries to get past.

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I have a Greek background. So I can laugh at everyone.

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Admit it man when it comes to censorship Australia sucks.
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(11-28-2011 05:34 PM)psychopath Wrote:  Admit it man when it comes to censorship Australia sucks.

I already know Australia sucks.

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All countries suck. Your country is not better than mine, we're all equally bad because the people in power are invariably corrupt. Power corrupts, it's human nature ALL COUNTRIES SUCK.

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(11-29-2011 01:45 PM)StadiumArcadium Wrote:  All countries suck. Your country is not better than mine, we're all equally bad because the people in power are invariably corrupt. Power corrupts, it's human nature ALL COUNTRIES SUCK.

Except for the glorious North Korea.

The thing is, I'm Greek. I'm proud of being Greek because we were badass in the ancient times. I wish I was a Greek in the ancient times...fuck yeah....
EDIT: Modern Greece is fucked though. I blame corruption and religion.

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(11-29-2011 03:27 PM)Efs Wrote:  
(11-29-2011 01:45 PM)StadiumArcadium Wrote:  All countries suck. Your country is not better than mine, we're all equally bad because the people in power are invariably corrupt. Power corrupts, it's human nature ALL COUNTRIES SUCK.

Except for the glorious North Korea.

The thing is, I'm Greek. I'm proud of being Greek because we were badass in the ancient times. I wish I was a Greek in the ancient times...fuck yeah....
EDIT: Modern Greece is fucked though. I blame corruption and religion.

I am part German, I wish I was a badass Saxon or barbarian and kill peoples with mah big axe from way back when. I bet everyone here on SS wishes they were from epic times too. It sucks how white people went from being rugged badasses to being middle-class jackoffs.

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